My 22 Goals for 2019 – Week 28 of 52

My 22 Goals for 2019

Goal #1 — Spend More Time Doing What I Love

Keeping cool and sharing ice cream with Miss Lucy puggle.

Goal #2 — Garden, Garden, Garden

I’m happy to report that I am making progress on getting the garden weeded. I need to dig out my snow pants though so I can finish up the big vegetable plot and weed the raspberry patch.

The basil plants though…. Wowza! We should be swimming in it in about another week. I’m looking forward to making boatloads of pesto and stockpiling it in the freezer for this winter.

Goal #3 — Plant an Orchard {Calling it Quits on this one for this year.}

I think I’ll stick to citrus until I can get the bug situation figured out.

Goal #4 — Gussy Up the Potting Shed Done!

Goal #5 — Grow Enough Extra Vegetables, Eggs and Flowers to Earn $1500 at my little roadside vegetable stand.

If I can’t get the rest of the garden weeded, I’ll be lucky to hit $500. I had truly planned on setting up the veggie stand in late spring and selling fresh eggs, but we’ve been eating them all and I didn’t plant much in the way of salad greens this year so I’m kind of stuck waiting for the tomatoes to ripen and the pumpkins to grow. Oh well.

Goal #6 — Finish Every Single Unfinished Rug Hooking Project in My Pattern Bin + 10 Things from back Issues of Magazines/Books I’ve Been Meaning to Make. 

I finished 2 patterns from my pattern bin this past week {mini flowers basket pillows} and completed 2 other pillows plus 6 of my hooked rug flowers for my Etsy shop update on Friday. I’m getting close to the half way point on finishing the project from my pattern bin and that feels good. There are SO MANY new projects I want to work on…. so keeping true to the original plan is hard. 😉

I started the year off with:

• 73 rugs in my pattern bin {now down to 41}
• 183 hooked flowers {finished 126, now down to 57}
• 10 “things” from back issues of magazines {finished 0}

Goal #7 — Create 12 New Rug Hooking Patterns {with at least half of them being large ones} DONE!

So far this year I’ve added 12 new rug hooking patterns and 13 beginner rug hooking kits to my Etsy shop and I’m hoping to add a few more before the year is over.

New rug hooking patterns I’ve created and added to My Etsy Shop this year:

• Tullia and Thomas Turkey
• Double Nantucket Whale Runner
• Miss Henny and Penny
• Miss Penny
• Simple Kitty
• Primitive Flowers
• 2 Fat Cats
• Annabell’s Big Day
• Old Fashioned Double Tulip
• Fat Brown Hen
• Busy Little Bee
• Queen Bee

Rug Hooking Kits

• Busy Little Bee {in 2 different colors}
• Folk Art Heart
• Small Nantucket Whale
• Primitive Crow
• Miss Robin {in 2 different colors}
• Simple Kitty
• Primitive Flowers
• Sunflowers
• A Basket of Spring Posies
• Fat Brown Hen
• Chicky’s Garden

Goal #8 — Split and Stack 2 Cords of Wood for Next Winter 

Nothing yet.

Goal #9 — Do Something with the 5,002 Photos on My Phone

Down to 3941 photos.

Goal #10 –Lose the Muffin Top

Oddly enough I am down 6 pounds from the beginning of the year. Half of which I think was sweat from having to garden all bundled up the last few weeks. My pants still fit the same though… so maybe I’m shrinking. Because don’t you start to do that when you get older? Lose an inch or two of height?

Goal #11 — Run, Walk or Crawl a 5k, 10k, Half Marathon and Marathon

I’m on turtle baby watch. Sorry Bob, I can’t do a marathon this week. Bummer.

Goal #12 — Read or Listen to 26 New Books {15 down, 11 to go}

Guess who hit the jackpot at the recycle center this week. Me!

I am waiting my turn on the library wait list for the following audio books:

• The Gown <– I am very excited about this! Thanks for the recommendation. 🙂
• Grateful American

Books I’ve Read or Listened to So Far This Year:

• Marilla of Green Gables #1 Favorite
• The Great Alone #2
• The Aviator’s Wife #3
• Before We Were Yours #4
• Secrets of a Charmed Life #5
• Where’d You Go, Bernadette #6
• Carnegie’s Maid #7
• The Alice Network #8
• The Shape of Mercy #9
• Will’s Red Coat #10
• Big Little Lies #11
• Bunny Mellon  {Doesn’t count because it was my second time}
• Walden
• Finder’s Keepers
• Delicious!
• Following Atticus

Goal #13 — Try 52 New Recipes.

18 down, 34 recipes to go.

Goal #14 — Clean Up 52 Old Recipes on the Blog

9 down, 44 to go. I’ll get crackin’ once fall {and cooler temps} come around.

Goal #15 — Fill 100 Canning Jars 41 down, 59 to go.

Still waiting for figs to hit the farm stands. Also, my favorite peach growers open their stand at the end of the month! have you ever tried a John Boy peach? They were my favorite last year.

So far this year I’ve I canned:

• 7 jars of Strawberry Jam
• 15 jars of Carrot Cake Jam
• 15 jars of Spiced Pear Jam 
• 4 jars of Almond Pears.

Goal #16 — Finish Furnishing Our House

Last week I picked up a free 6 board chest at the recycle center and we decided to use it as a tv stand. Now I just have a few more things to find. This week though The Girl came a long with me a snagged herself a set of dishes. 🙂 Now all she needs to find are some baking sheets and a few baking dishes and I think she has enough to fill a kitchen {if she ever decides to move out someday}.

Furniture pieces I’m still on the hunt for:

• Coffee table for the family room
• Console, cupboard or sideboard for the one and only tv in our house which is in the family room. I could totally live without a television, but my husband says the tv stays.
• Long rectangular table for the craft room.
• Table for the formal dining room.
• 2 wing back chairs for the family room.
• I’d also like to decorate the mantel in the keeping room as well as put up some sort of decoration above the other 3 2 fireplaces in the house. I’m not one for a lot of things on the walls, but it would be nice to throw up a little pilgrim bling on the plaster.

Goal #17 – 52 Dates with the HH {23 down, 29 to go}

The HH and I were up in the Lake Winnipesaukee area for a family event and while we were driving around in the area we stopped at 2 of the most amazing garden centers. I took oodles of pictures and am looking forward to sharing them with you next week.

Goal #18 — Take One Adult Education Class Done {I’ve taken 2!}

1. I’m keeping the first class I took with my neighbor top secret for now
2. Spoon Carving Class with Heather.

Looking in to taking class #3 with my neighbor!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Goal #19 — Secret {for now} Holiday Project

The big reveal… Friday, September 13th, 2019.

Goal #20 — Create 12 Wowie Zowie Party Platters

4 down, 8 to go.

Goal #21 — Visit 12 General Stores

7 down 5 to go.

We checked out the Squam Lake MarketPlace which is in Holderness, NH where On Golden Pond was filmed but the store was so crowded, taking pictures of the inside of the store would have been too intrusive, so I passed. I’d love to visit this area in the fall though. Squam Lake was much less touristy and crowed than Lake Winnipesaukee was and I liked it a lot better.

So far this year we’ve visited:

• Squam Lake Marketplace
• Harrisville General Store
• Dodge’s Store in New Boston, New Hampshire
• Zeb’s General Store in North Conway, New Hampshire
• Dan and Whit’s in Norwich, Vermont
• Hussey’s General Store in Windsor, Maine

Goal #22 — Compete with Carole….. Get on My Front Door Game On

The bunting is still up. 🙂 The HH said Independence day is over and it should come down but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with leaving the star and bunting up all summer. What do you think?

Also, I put Mrs. HB on alert that when/if she comes to visit me later this summer, she’ll be making a new wreath for the door {and we all know she LOVES decorating her front porch, so I know it will be a good one}.

Front Door Bling I’ve Made So Far This Year to Compete with Carole:

• Late January : Valentine Heart
• Late February : Shamrock
• Late March : Giant Carrot
• May: White wave petunia hanging basket
• June/July: Tin Star and Flag Bunting

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How about YOU? What are your goals for 2019? If you told us about them HERE, check in! We want to know how you are doing. Because seriously, it’s so much easier to get those goals checked off your list when you have people rooting for you! 🙂

♥ Mavis

You can read more about my 22 goals for 2019 HERE.

Have a Great Sunday!